What meal made your heart sink as a child

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For me i think it was mince and potatoes. The mince was from a tin ffs!! With tinned peas and carrots.

My mum used to make me eat this and i would gag and cry! Oh and fucking ready brek as i would get pneumonia if i didn't eat it - boak

A marrow is what you get when you forget about the courgettes in the garden and pick them too late.

Marrow is a vegetable - like a huge, tasteless courgette.

That's practically pornographic.

I used to always, always leave the boiled potatoes that came with our school dinners (which weren't bad, as school dinners go, but they did have iffy bits). I once threw a full-on diva tantrum in the dinner hall aged 14 when Mrs H insisted on serving me potatoes. The whole school probably remembers it.

Sunday dinner because of the sprouts (forced to eat them). Christmas dinner ditto.

Oh and home-grown marrows can be quite nice done in the oven with a good, flavoursome filling. Cheap plain mince won't do them any favours.

I pre-slice mine, put the filling in and sprinkle them with a seasoning/spice mix and a little oil before putting them in the oven.

Gammon with a pineapple ring on it - vile pink chewy rubber and weird acidic fruit. sometimes we used to have half a tinned peach if no pineapple in house. hideous.

scrambled eggs with ketchup mixed in - urgh.

My mum went through a phase of trying to feed us tripe. Horrible stringy stuff that look like sponge. I'm gagging just typing this.

Also tongue. The taste wasn't too bad, but the texture is just vile.

I saw this guy an his grandson in the paper today. There's a few dinners in that!

Iiver and onions. It was just a big lump of slimy, chewy liver. Not even cut up into pieces or anything. It used to make me gag and I was forced to clear my plate.

Coming from Australia, mine is choko. A tasteless vegetable that grows in a lots of Australian back gardens.

There was an urban myth that McDonalds used choko instead of apple in their apple pies.

We had a dinner lady who had a headscarf and curlers as well. Sadly, none of ours had ever worked at the Savoy though
I'm laughing at the spatzle (sp?) though. Made it here recently and my youngest loves it and keeps asking for it again

A marrow is an oversized courgette/ zucchini that has grown into a big fat useless vegetable (often two feet long). During the Eighties there was a vogue for harking back to the mythical Good Life and English cookbooks told us to stuff marrows and bake them in the oven. However, it tasted like a soggy receptacle filled with bland minced beef with a shake of Lea & Perrins. It was horrid.

Mind you if I was starving, I wouldn't be turning my nose up at it.

BogStandardOldWoman my only explanation for the stringy thready spuds was she must have bought them off someone who robbed from King Tut's tomb, they were probably ancient spuds the greengrocer had knocking about. I was speaking to one of my sisters earlier and reminded her about the manky spuds and the half a pigs head combo we used to get, she practically got sick down the phone lol

Does anyone these days know how to cook a pig's head?
I'm leaning pescatrian again

Oh yeah boiled pig's head!

My Mum used to give me a pig's ear to chew on when I was teething. She said I adored them.

I'm sure spätzle are fine when done correctly...

My Nan remembered boiled sheep's head. She remembered the wool all wet in the pot and the little teeth showing.

squoosh

I bet you still do

I thought mince before I even opened this thread. But reading others contributions, I got off lightly.

OMG! ClawHands, your poor Nan, that is grim.

OMG Clawboiled sheep's head with teeth and wet wool. Amounts to child abuse.

Mum would get a half a pig head and just boil the life out of it in a big pot for like days on the Aga and basically when the skin fell off the bone it was done. She then would get her old mincer, you had to bolt it to the table and grind up all the meat into gunge, put it in a enamel dish she used specifically for this horror of horror, put to chill and served sliced and cold with YR sauce and stringy spuds

VOM!

Squoosh are you my sister??? Supposedly she used to get the pigs ear too cause she loved them, she didn't!

Hardly dare ask what YR sauce is.

Haggis was an odd one. I liked the taste but not the conversation about whether it was made of pig lungs or sheep lobes.

Tractor your mother makes mine seem like a mere amateur in the pig boiling stakes! That is a truly gruesome dedication to the cause